Word: tic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Captain Brad Konik fed freshman Craig MacDonald down to the right of the goal, MacDonald then crossed the puck to Bent, who was waiting to Konte's left, and Bent blasted it home. Even John Madden couldn't diagram it any better than that one--a sort of a tic-tac-goal...
...hoping that one of the professors who read the manuscript will remember a former student who used "consist in" when he meant "consist of," or that some other grammatical tic will trigger an association leading to the Unabomber's unmasking. Mathematical code breaking is a far more precise science than detective work on language. But writing in sufficient samples does betray unique characteristics, including vocabulary range, repeated sentence structures and preferred figures of speech...
...wrote the company's first product, Microsoft Basic) but also meets regularly with the ceos of all the major hardware and software firms. This enables him to spot trends and anticipate developments as clearly as anyone in the industry. It is as if he were playing three-dimensional tic-tac-toe in a world where everyone else is playing...
...Blame it on some mysterious physical or mental tic...
...problem is that UMass scored 19 seconds later. Glass converted a tic-tac-toe-like passing display after the face-off and beat Lyng with six seconds remaining...